Shirt incorporating waterproof protector



Sept. 18, 1951 H. 0. HEAD SHIRT INCORPORATING WATERPROOF PROTECTOR Filed July 12, 1949 I N VEN TOR. 73mg 0. EM BY ATTOE/YEKS Patented Sept. 18, 1951 SHIRT INCORPORATIN G WATERPROOF PROTECTOR Henry 0. Head, Sherman, Tex.

Application July 12, 1949, Serial No. 104,346

3 Claims.

This invention rel-ates to infants apparel, particularly to an outer garment such as a shirt, and it has for its general object to provide a garment of the type described for small children at the drooling period, incorporating means for protecting the underlying clothing from becoming soaked with saliva, thus avoiding the necessity of changing the clothin from the skin out, a number of times a day.

The object of the invention is to provide a shirt or like garment having a chest portion having two spaced plies forming a pocket opening adjacent the neckline for receiving a flexible waterproof sheet thus protecting the inner ply as well a the clothing beneath-it from becoming wet.

Another object of the invention is to provide a garment having the pocket as specified, and a removable flexible waterproof protector having a crevice or stall at its lower or advance end to receive the tips of the fingers of one inserting the protector, whereby it may be maintained fiat when pushed into place.

Other objects of the invention will appear as the following description of a preferred and practical embodiment thereof proceeds.

In the drawing which accompanies the following specification and throughout the several figures of which the same reference characters have been used to denote identical parts:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the shirt and child combination, the shirt embodying the principles of the invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken through the shirt from front to back;

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the insertable protector;

Figure 4 is a perspective view illustrating the method of inserting the'protector.

Referring now in detail to the several figures, the numeral l represents a shirt or similar outer garment having a superposed ply 2 overlying the breast portion and stitched thereto about its side and bottom edges, forming with the underlying front of the shirt a pocket 3, which is open along the neckline. This pocket is of sufile ciently extensive area to afford adequate protection to the rest of the clothing. The shirt and overlying ply 2 are ordinarily made of conventional textile materials, which in general are quite flexible as well as moisture permeable. It is highly desirable that the overlying ply 2 shall be absorptive to prevent the saliva from trickling over its surface onto the lower part of the shirt.

The protector 4 is shaped to fit within the pocket. As shown, it i a flat sheet of flexible waterproof plastic or similar material, bound around the edges. This sheet is inserted into the pocket 3 through the opening of said pocket at the neckline. When in place, the protector prevents the clothing which underlies the pocket, from becoming soaked with saliva.

It has been experimentally demonstrated that it would be a diflicult matter to insert a plain flexible protector in the pocket 3 in flat congruency therewith. The protector of the present invention, as shown, is provided with a short ply 5 overlying the front, adjacent the bottom of the protector and stitched to the edges thereof, forming a crevice or stall open along the upper edge 6 of the ply 5, into which the ends of the finger of the mother or nurse are inserted while the palm of the hand is kept fiat against the protector. The latter is then pushed into place, the ends of the fingers applying pressure at the advance end, while the protector is held flat, as indicated in Figure 4.

Removal of the protector permits the shirt to be laundered in the usual manner and the protector to be separately cleaned.

While I have in the above description disclosed what I believe to be a preferred and practical embodiment of the invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the specific details of construction and arrangement of parts as shown, are by way of illustration and not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A body garment of the shirt type including a front panel, a superposed ply smaller than said front panel overlying the breast portion and secured at its side and bottom edges to said front panel forming a pocket opening adjacent the neckline, and a removable waterproof protector fitting said pocket, insertable through said opening.

2 A body garment of the shirt type including a front panel, a superposed ply smaller than said front panel overlying the breast portion and secured at its side and bottom edges to said front panel forming a pocket openin adjacent the neckline, said superposed ply being of absorbent material, and a removable waterproof protector fittin said pocket, insertable through said open- 3. A body garment of the shirt type including a front panel, a superposed ply smaller than said front panel overlying the breast portion and secured at its side and bottom edges to said front panel forming a pocket opening adjacent the neckline, and a removable waterproof protector fitting said pocket insertable through said opening, said protector having a stall at its forward end to receive the fingertips, as a means to accomplish the flat insertion of said protector in said pocket.

HENRY 0. HEAD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,112,805 Kaufman Oct. 6, 1915 1,193,545 Hart Aug. 8, 1916 

